Picture Gallery of the M&GN Railway Line on a journey Cuckoo Junction to Long Sutton Map of Cuckoo Junction Cuckoo Junction Cuckoo Junction Signal Box A-little-of-my-handy-work-about-1962-Hawthorn-Bank-was-Ma-Bates-land-before-the-housing-estate-was-built M&GN’s Hawthorn Bank Level…
The Cuckoo Inn was a Soames Brewery pub that was sold to Steward and Patteson in 1949. It closed on the 23rd September 1953. Click on image to enlarge …
……..famous for growing bulbs and cut flowers, particularly tulips, daffodils and narcissi. Beginning with a handful of growers in the 1880s, there were about 6,000 acres of bulbs in the…
The house is being built at the junction of Middle Road and Churchgate. Opposite Cross Street, the junction is now Mill Lane click on the image to enlarge …
A WW1 Printed Card by Home Words, in conjunction with St. John’s Church, Whaplode Drove. A Thank You to the Armed Services. …
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…approach – leaves a rather ungainly result. However, given that both the Norman pillars at this junction of the NAVE and the WEST END would have not only been sitting…
…gate, belonging to what was known as the “Donnington Turnpike Trust” across the high way, at what might be termed the junction of Pinchbeck Street and Pinchbeck Road. South of…
…were made on Bourne Fen, and one of these was Twenty Drove (now called North Drove). Twenty Drove ran north – south from a junction with the Bourne-Spalding road, where,…
…‘lode’ indicates that the Westlode was an artificial drainage channel; it flowed from a junction with the River Glen at Pinchbeck Bars, alongside Dozens Bank to Pode Hole, then followed…
…this part. Should be Cragged Bank. Cuckoo Road leads to the inn of that name, and Marsh Road leads to the marshland. Childer’s North Drove and South Drove are more…
…of some of Fenland’s more esoteric names: Route 318 had one of the oddest worded timetables of any service in Lincolnshire: Spalding-Pode Hole-Cuckoo Bridge-Counter Drain-Tongue End. source Chris Bates …
…Mr H. B. Atkinson’s Cuckoo Farm, Spalding, on Saturday morning. He was conveyed by ambulance to Spalding Johnson Hospital, but was dead on arrival. The inquest was to be held…
…was the plan behind that, that purchase? Geoff At the time they purchased it they were going to conserve the building and repair it which they did in conjunction with…
…riverside to the right/middle of the photo and to the far left/middle is the Chain Bridge Forge. In the foreground on the right is the junction of Double Street, Westlode…
…for a short period when Thomas Il was in disgrace and although there have been many ingenious explanations, they are not convincing. In the crook of the road junction of…
…the Spalding side of Iron Bar Drove. Continuing along Iron Bar Drove and turning left at the next junction along the river bank will bring you to the site of…
…the best fields By 1950, Tulip Week had become Tulip Time and was developed in conjunction with the Spalding Urban District Council over three designated weekends To ensure that there…
